officials there are trying to stop it, "eyewitness news" at 6:00 starts right now. >> developing right now, a fast moving forest fire, forced residents in burlington county to evacuate, and evacuate their homes as fire fighters are still battling the flames. good evening, i'm ukee washington. i'm jessica dean. that fire broke out late this afternoon in the browns mills section of the pemberton township we have a crew on the way, and we will bring you a live update, later in the newscast. parts of the region continue to clean up after damaging storms moved through yesterday, the national weather service determined a micro burst toys blame for damage in middletown ship. there the severe weather brought down treason cars and also across roadways. a cut off a half mile path along damage in the green creek neighborhood. lower township, villas

neighborhood a large tree fell down the storm and nearly cut a home in half. fortunately no one was hurt. remember you can always send us your storm pictures and video, on facebook and twitter, just be sure to use #cbs-3. an eight two-year old woman is victim of an assault and carjacking in a parking lot and tonight police need your help to find the person responsible. >> "eyewitness news" reporter joe holden joins us from hainesport burlington count which more details on the search for a suspect, joe. >> ukee and jessica, it is a startling crime according to new jersey state police. so startling that it took to facebook and essentially rode that, you can replace a car but you cannot begin to address the fear, that was placed in to this eight two-year old grandmother. grandmother carjack. new jersey state police say this guy slapped a eight two-year old woman across the face, and forced her out and took off in it. this happened saturday june 11th, and, the elderly

woman, was waiting in the car with the keys, while her daughter was shopping inside this hainesport supermarket. >> it was physical removal from the vehicle. >> reporter: is she okay. >> yes, she was okay. she denied medical assistance at the time. >> reporter: state police say woman's daughter return to find her mother sitting on you the side the car, now long gone, investigators say it is unlikely the thief had a weapon but the entire ordeal was unsettling for the eight two-year old woman. >> considering the age, the age of the victim, that i think people would agree it is more heinous. >> reporter: well, state police have provided a description of that suspected carjacker, he is described to be a black man standing 5 feet 8 inches tall, and 170-pound. they say he had raining braided hair and was wearing a white phillies baseball jersey, white pant and red shoes. of course, if you see this man or know anything about this carjacking, new jersey state police would like to hear from you. reporting live tonight, joe holden for cbs-3 "eyewitness

news". >> thanks, joe. new details on the scare at holland tunnel in north jersey 36789 men on a mission are arrested with a vehicle full of weapons. tonight "eyewitness news" reporter greg argos tells us about the local connection to this disturbing case. >> reporter: less than 30 minutes before port authority police pulled over this not so inn conspicuous pick up for crack in the windshield the driver, john ramsey, posted this to his face book page. going to a hotel to extract a 16 year-old girl, adding her friend died of her heroin overdose, i'm bringing her out of new york today and anybody else in that hotel that wants to go home too. >> shooting, training, instruction. >> reporter: he is owner of the gun range near allentown and two others with him never complete that had mission. port third police arrested the trio moment before they entered the holland tunnel and found the weapons inside their truck, including multiple handguns, one assault rifle, body arm or, knives, night

vision goggles and multiple round of ammunition. >> large majority of these weapons were loaded. >> i was surprised that he crossed state lines with firearms. yes, that i was surprised with. >> reporter: his good friend, chris says he isn't surprised that he was trying to save someone addicted to heroin. >> recently he lost his daughter and rededicated his life to stopping the heroin problem in the lehigh valley. >> reporter: four months ago his 20 year-old daughter died from an overdose. >> i lost my little girl. >> reporter: since then ramsey has made it his mission to stop the spread of what he says is a dangerous disease. >> extremely passionate, willing to die to save somebody's life and stop heroin problem, not only in the lehigh valley but every where. he wants it to come to an end because it is a huge problem. >> reporter: he and two others with him all from the lehigh valley remain in jail tonight, they all are facing weapons as well as marijuana-related charges but bail has been set at $57,000 each.

rorrer are reporting here from zionville i'm greg argos for cb36789 "eyewitness news". camden county officials spent the day preparing for the worst as they staged a response to a mass shooting incident again, this was all practice. police fire officials and emt's were at lindenwald high school to take part in this active shooter drill, they used mocked guns and practiced securing various parts of the building. delaware officials announced an alarming increase in overdose deaths, related to fentanyl a synthetic pain kill their is 50 times more potent they are heroin. it is reflective of the national trend that is new hitting home. >> health reporter stephanie stahl is here with more on why these officials are so worried. >> drug overdosees are leading cause of accidental deaths in the the nation. experts say opiates are driving this epidemic. the state of delaware is now rang ninth in the country for

overdose deaths. seventy-eight americans die each day from opiate overdoseness delaware, deaths from fentanyl a synthetic opiate are up 180 percent, fatal od's are related to both illegal and legal drugs. since 1999, the number of prescriptions sold for opiates has quadrupled and so has number of people who died from them. >> many clinicians overestimated the safety of these products and under estimate had their risk. >> reporter: caleb alexander has studied whether doctors are more cautious when prescribing drugs. >> all they there is some evidence that doctors are scaling back a little bit, we are a long way to go. >> reporter: more than 1,000 people are treated in emergency rooms every day for misusing prescription drugs. rock star prince, most recent high profile victim his autopsy revealed he died from an accidental fentanyl overdose and opiate much more powerful then other painkillers. in delaware from the start of the year to mid-may there were

44 fentanyl overdose deaths, in all of 2015, there were 42. >> fentanyl is one of the types of prescription opioids that accounts for disproportion nate number of injuries and deaths. >> reporter: cdc released guidelines for doctors earlier this year discouraging the prescribing of opiates for chronic pain and encouraging patient toss try over the counter medicines instead along with other measures. >> things such asthma sage, acupuncture, physical therapy. >> reporter: new governmental report says that more americans are embracing those alternative therapies, spending $0 billion a year out of pocket for them. but the opiate problem is also growing. officialness delaware today called the overdose death rates there heart breaking, adding that the fentanyl people are getting now is so toxic chances for survival is low. this is why it is so important to dress addiction, issues. the is there help out there. tough one. >> very tough. >> thanks, stephanie.

new jersey governor chris christie is renewing efforts to reduce property taxes in the state. today he urged the legislature to support his proposal to equally fund schools in the state. >> 29 percent cap has restrained property taxes, and if we pass this school funding formula you will see why the 2 t because if you give them all this money, they would want to spend it but with the 2 percent cap they will only spend 2 percent of the new money they get. >> christie satisfies christie's proposal would harm poor school districts in the state. philadelphia is preparing for democratic national convention next month and so is late show host, stephen colbert. colbert will be broadcasting live from new york, during the dnc and the republican convention, in cleveland. rnc is july 18th through 21st, dnc is 25th through the 28th. late show will also have a presence here in philadelphia, we will have much more on that in the coming days. with the dnc now just over

a month away head to cbs philly.com/dnc for a look at all of the final preps. gorgeous day to head down the shore. >> that is right vittoria woodill did just that, torey. that is right, it is a gorgeous day to be grabbing, we are celebrating the biggest crabbing tournament in the country this weekend and coming up we will see if i get lucky, kate, do you have faith in me. i always have faith in you, torey. weather is looking beautiful today, really nice day tomorrow, heat not so strong but we will track threat for another round of rain and possibly strong thunderstorms, we will have the latest too many on those storms, coming up, don. sports interview goes terribly wrong, video you have to see to believe. speaking of interviews ben simmons is in new york talking about the sixers. hear what the likely number one pick is saying about brett brown, sports coming up next.

philadelphia fire department celebrated arrival of the new fire truck in west philadelphia today. >> engine 68 held a housing ceremony, in this er v pumper, during the event members of the fire department ceremony, pushing in the new apparatus, the philadelphia police and pipes and drums were there to mark the special occasion. city of philadelphia's public pool season opened up today with a plash. mayor jim kenney was on hand for kick off at maximizer recollect center in northeast philadelphia one of the eight pools that opened today. other 60 will open up on a rolling bases through july 1st. mayor kenney called public pool season one of the cities most cherished traditions and he had this message for the kid. >> listen to the life guards. be safe, look out for each other and make sure you are

safe, happy and cooled off. so have fun. >> have fun. >> for list of the pool opening, you can go to cbs philly.com. >> mayor didn't jump in, like mayor rendell used to do back in the day. he would jump right in the with the kid. don has our sports. we are talking about a big day for sixers tomorrow. >> how long have we been waiting for this. >> three years. >> exactly, three years, beginning of the the last season, when they weren't that good. how about this, about time. we are 24 hours away from the nba draft. sixers are expect to take lsu forward ben simmons number one overall. last night they were on jimmy fallon. today he was on the media circumstance witt other top prospects. he was asked about brett brown who spent time in australia potentially meeting his coach. >> coached my dad back in the day back in australia. he has known me since i was born as a young kid, and, you know, we had that connection for a while. now, we're at this point. it is strange how it has

happened like this. >> now hopefully one day ben can help bring this, to philadelphia, for the first time in 52 years, city of cleveland hosted a major championship parade. lebron and cavilers marching through the street with their brand new trophy. thousands of fans came out to celebrate. some stood on rooftops, some stood on portable potties to get a glimpse of the king, and his now many rings. vegas baby, vegas. nhl is first major professional sports league to call sin city home. league's board of governors made it official, new franchise will play in the 2017/18 season. good news is that the phillies, had a season high home runs and hits last night, the bad news is that, they still lost to the twins 14-ten. game two is at 8:10. adam morgan gets a start with the era currently over six. so night to be at top of the game, philadelphia union are the best team in the

eastern conference and tonight they will host chicago fire, kid from the windy city haven't won on the road in get this a record 31 games. they must hate room service. international soccer star christiana win nal dough does not like interviews on the fly. a reporter sticks his mike in there to ask him a question, hey is your team ready for euro2016. he responded by, taking that mike and throwing it in the lake. what up with that. >> come on man. >> that is a lot on the have of aggression. >> down ride route. >> down right rude. >> thank you. >> i like how he takes it. >> it is gone. >> not good sports man ship, young people looking at that. >> kate joins us with the forecast, bright, sunny, looking very nice. >> thank you. >> tomorrow you will be wearing what though. >> maybe gray, if i'm dressing to match the sky then today we have sunshine. tomorrow looks a little bit on the gray side but good news

the sun will come back in time for the first week even have of summer. we will take a look what is happening right now on storm scan three and we have clear skies, they have been with us all day, blue skies, sunshine, just a gorgeous summer day to day and lower humidity then we have been feeling as well. dew points in the 40's and 50's. to points are rising and we will be track risk for showers and thunderstorms. things are just starting to get underway in the midwest there is moderate risk for severe weather. that is not something we see all that often. that means decent threat for tornadoes and straight line wind across the midwest tonight. everything just starting to getting here as we are seeing showers and thunderstorms around earlier moving out. what we can expect is for these showers and storms to hold together, overnight, and then brush by us mainly hitting to the south. lets take a look. this is what we call an mcs or mess owe scale convective structure and thinks going to hold together starting tonight. notice right around chicago 10:00 p.m. pretty nasty thunderstorms right around the

chicago metro area. this then meets into a line of straight line wind. you can see nasty weather possible over portions of west virginia, overnight tonight into tomorrow morning and then by mid-morning we will start to see that system moving south of our region, clipping with us cloud and rain. what to expect as we head into tomorrow morning? we will expect threat for some rain early, and some cloud cover as well early in the day. that could inhibit things in the afternoon for us but if it clears out we will get sunshine we will watch for those, daytime heating type storms and there will be risk for severe weather. the bigger threat especially for strong to severe thunderstorms to our south and west but we cannot rule out afternoon severe thunderstorm damaging wind and downpours. rain in the morning. focus and zoom in on our region 8:00 a.m. we will have cloud. rain creeps from the the south and west. clips us around nine or 10:00 a.m. a soggy start to the morning. that then moves outs and any sun that peaks out may len itself to development of more thunderstorm activity in the afternoon and into tomorrow

night. mainly again off to the west and to the south but we have to keep a close eye on it tomorrow. tomorrow is a day to be ready for rain, strong thunderstorms at anytime. overnight increasing cloud, please apartment night at 68 degrees but tomorrow we will start with clouds, some rain by mid-morning and then threat for some strong then are storms in the afternoon. same story down the shore, showers possibly a storm. worst will stay to the west but definitely something to watch. does not look like a repeat of what they had yesterday thank goodness. friday and saturday look much better down the shore and quick peak at your seven day after tomorrow we have a great stretch starting friday and it will last right in the start of next week. >> looking good. >> thanks, kate, appreciate it. it is wednesday and that means vittoria woodill is down the shore. >> today she's catching dinner, torey. >> reporter: that is right i'm trying to catch my dinner and it starts with a little bait and putting it on one of these crab traps. we will see if i get lucky.

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great day to be down the shore. >> our vittoria woodill is in somers point, chilling along the great egg harbor bay, vittoria. >> chilling. i'm not chilling. ron, and the mayor have me working. that is right, we are crabbing, we are celebrating the crabbing tournament which is the biggest crabbing tournament, in the world. in the world? in the country. is it in the world. >> in the country. >> i'm just so excited to be crabbing but i should be less excited because i have not caught anything yet but that is about to change. we will talk in a second. we will go over here, with dennis, dennis, what we have didn't here is put a crab trap in there with chicken, threw tonight there you will hook it and i will pull it up.

>> you have faith in me. >> youth a doubt. >> mayor, please hold my microphone if you can hold that. we will get ron to push, on toward that buoy, what we are hoping for is at least one crab is in there. and they say you need a lot of arm strength and we will try my best. >> okay. we got nothing. we got nothing but that is okay, mayor, we are winners because we are in somers point. >> that is place place to be during the summer or anytime. >> exactly. >> lets talk to ron about the tournament that is this weekend. tell us about what people can expect from somers point. >> it is largest crabbing tournament the in the country, 150 come in from nine different states and they descend upon this area they are starting to come in town now and they will be crabbing this region on friday and saturday trying to find the biggest crab and win the tournament. >> so as far as bait what are we go to go see a lot of. >> chicken necks and bunker

are two things we will see most. >> you told me something earlier, secret, to you want to tell that to everybody on television or no. >> about chicken. >> about the other vegetable. >> about red potatoes. >> red potatoes. >> kind of shocking. >> crabs are scavengers and dear friend of mine used to say red potatoes were the bait of choice. >> we will see if that work for folks this weekend. and if you are planning to head to somers point this weekend you can visit cbs philly.com for more info. we will try to get this guy over here and see if bee get lucky once again but we will see you guys. so far, we have not caught anything but we're working on it. >> don't give up. >> don't give up, thanks, torey. >> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on the cw philly and back here on cbs-3 at 11:00. up next "cbs evening news", scott pelley reports from new york. take care family, we will see you tonight. >> ♪

>> pelley: sitting down to take a stand. house democrats hold a sit-in to demand a vote on gun control. >> the time for silence and patience is long gone. >> pelley: also tonight-- >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the united states. >> i guess my speech yesterday must have gotten under his skin. >> pelley: the big 12 conference demands baylor come clean about sexual assault on campus. >> reporter: how many women on campus do you know who have been sexually assaulted? >> probably about... 20. >> pelley: and a new